Toepiary: a place where surgical irrigation meets surgical landscaping.

Godfather of Sole: An honorific for one’s professional mentor(s)

Un-Met need: Someone who, by virtue of having a neuropathic wound and profound deformity, requires a metatarsal head resection.

Toe & Tell: Getting a proper medical history from a patient with a diabetic foot complication

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Toepocalypse: An impending diabetic foot calamity– such as the one that is waiting for us in the operating room when we write this blog.

Vaya con Dedos: A parting wish upon leaving the SALSA clinics or operating room. “Go with Toes” (rather than without)

Carpe Dedos: Sieze the Toe (while this may have come up before, Tim wanted to ensure it made the list).

Hammertosis Fugax: A person with diabetes and blindness who develops a neuropathic wound on a contracted toe. This is not to be mistaken with Amaurosis Fugax, which is blindness due to transient retinal ischemia. The two may coexist, forming a dual fugue kind of scenario

Missle Toe: a penetrating traumatic toe injury in a person with diabetes

Turf Toe: a referral to SALSA without a solid medical rationale

ManifesTOE: An operative report following an amputation prevention procedure (bypass or incision and drainage or graft/flap.

Toemigo/Flowmigo (self explanatory)

FreeToes with SALSA (mantra for limb salvage)

Toebama and Joe the Plumber (nicknames designed to politicize the Toe and Flow team– however, there are no wedge issues in SALSA– just wedge pressures).

Toe and Flowmance (bromance between podiatrist and vascular surgeon)

The Toebel “piece” prize: Award for prevention periodically given for keeping a person intact.

FloJoe (Armstrong’s affectionate nickname for Mills)

Toe Bless Oblige (the obligation to improve foot care)

Podshine

Der DopplerGanger – referring to one’s vascular partner

Sir I-Pod (international podiatrist)

PodCaster

Toe Mechanic

SALSA Bowl (for our laboratories)

Podiatric physician extender (given to our vascular surgical team)

SALSA Relay: handing off a particularly challenging patient between SALSA team members.

Non-life partner: one’s professional SALSA partner

Marooned on the Pedal Peninsula: trying to heal a wound on the foot without sufficient blood flow.